Middlemarch Book I: Miss Brooke

By George Eliot

Miss Brooke had that kind of beauty which seems to be thrown into relief by poor dress. Her hand and wrist were so finely formed that she could wear sleeves not less bare of style than those in which the Blessed Virgin appe-ared to Italian painters; and her profile as well as her sta-ture and bearing seemed to gain the more dignity from her plain garments, which by the side of provincial fas-hion gave her the impressiveness of a fine quotation from the Bible, -or from one of our elder poets, -in a parag-raph of to-day‟s newspaper. She was usually spoken of as being remarkably clever, but with the addition that her sister Celia had more common-sens

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B08R8WYXZ8
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• Release Date: January 1
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 160 Pages
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